Own and Promote the Positive!

Own and Promote the Positive!

By Malc Rooney, Coordinator, ESRAG Regional Chapter Chairs Over the past year I have become increasingly aware that there is much being done in response to Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability that is positive.  I think that Rotary International in general...
Saving Forests to Save Ourselves

Saving Forests to Save Ourselves

Here’s the good news: forests managed by Indigenous people in the Amazon region served as life-saving carbon sinks from 2001-21, removing the equivalent of the UK’s annual fossil fuel emissions each year, according to a new study by the World Resources Institute....
Rotary Leaders Emphasize Environment at Zone Institute

Rotary Leaders Emphasize Environment at Zone Institute

By Yasar Atacik, ESRAG Chair-Elect Dedicated to “Climate Stability Through Environmental Sustainability,” Rotary’s Institute for Zones 1b, 9 and 10 took place 2-4 December at Abu Dhabi. This Institute put the spotlight on urgent environmental issues and...
Rotary Releases Environmental Global Grant Guidelines

Rotary Releases Environmental Global Grant Guidelines

This summer The Rotary Foundation (TRF) released guidelines for environmental global grants which both expand and fine-tune the initial Environment Policy statement from July 2021. The guidelines offer sound advice to equip applicants to achieve a “positive,...
Restoring Wetlands in the Western Ghats

Restoring Wetlands in the Western Ghats

When massive floods and landslides left thousands homeless in Kerala, South India last year, scientists in the Nilgiris West Rotary Club seized the teachable moment to focus their community’s attention on the ecological damage that fed the flood, and to point to...